Firefly

[Reply #400 on:]

I forfeit my bonus points. What were we supposed to spot?

It's very hard to see, but Nathan has confirmed it.

On the left hand side, the shelf under the boat on the right of the shelf, is the Catalyzer.

[Reply #401 on:]

Awesome. Now that you say it, I see it. Ahh, that port compression coil. Ahh, the memories.

[Reply #402 on:]

http://io9.com/5492302/finally-the-secrets-of-fireflys-shepherd-book-will-be-told

[Reply #403 on:]

Its quite sad that those things had to be released in comics...
but well... at least in FireFly its "official"

[Reply #404 on:]

Stolen from Nix:

Firefly's biggest star is not who you think

[Reply #405 on:]

http://io9.com/5492302/finally-the-secrets-of-fireflys-shepherd-book-will-be-told

Jet Black, anyone?

[Reply #406 on:]

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/04/19/firefly-serenity-fan-webcomic-take-my-love/

[Reply #407 on:]

Fan made?  No... just ... no.

[Reply #408 on:]

Stolen from Nix:

Firefly's biggest star is not who you think

When rob made me watch the series, its one of the things I noticed.  Suddenly that scene comes on and I'm like "HEY THATS ZAC EFRON!" 

[Reply #409 on:]

This picture makes me happy.

[Reply #410 on:]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuEfGbj9qS4

[Reply #411 on:]

Sean Maher doesn't get a mention. Heh.

[Reply #412 on:]

Hah. That made it seem so 80's/90's. Ahh...good times.

[Reply #413 on:]

Sean Maher doesn't get a mention. Heh.

http://io9.com/5584194/the-real-reason-simon-tam-wasnt-in-our-1980s-firefly-intro

[Reply #414 on:]

:teh firefly pic:

This picture makes me happy.

Where is that from?

tell me tell me tell me

[Reply #415 on:]

Nathan Fillion posted it on his twitter account.

All signs point to it just being a 4th July party that Fillion was having, that the others were invited to.

[Reply #416 on:]

Well, we can only bring one show back.  And we decided on Futurama.

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[Reply #418 on:]

I have seen serenity, and a few episodes of firefly. I would really love to punch FOX in the ovaries, cancelling shows i like.
Anyway, Firefly is easily one of my favourite shows ever now, i'm waiting on the series on bluray

[Reply #419 on:]

So, we had another Firefly reference in Nathan Fillion's new series, "Castle" in tonight's episode. The story deals with Chinese espionage, and in one scene which takes place in a shop in Chinatown, Fillion's character starts inexplicably speaking Mandarin Chinese to the shop workers, which causes his parter to ask how the hell he learned to speak it. In response, he says that he learned it from an old TV series he used to love to watch.

Classy.

[Reply #420 on:]

lol...i watched Castle in the beginning but haven't seen it in recent months...that is awesome that they're referencing Firefly in it...what if they started referencing his other show...Drive...hahaha

[Reply #421 on:]

Nobody would get it because nobody watched it?

[Reply #422 on:]

I did...

[Reply #423 on:]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/02/17/firefly-returns/

[Reply #424 on:]

I thought this show was cancelled..... why are we still talking about it?

[Reply #425 on:]

because it's an awesome show.  also because we have nothing better to do

[Reply #426 on:]

If we talk about it enough it might come back. Worked for Futurama.

What is it with networks cancelling shows that begin with F? Firefly, Farscape, Futurama, Family Guy...

[Reply #427 on:]

Sweet news. I'm hoping...

[Reply #428 on:]

I'm interested to see how the Science Channel can possibly make the layout of the worlds make sense. Could terraforming really make a Pluto-distance planet livable? No.

[Reply #429 on:]

I see your unfortunate misunderstanding and raise you one reference material and a map.

[Reply #430 on:]

Do they have any idea how much distance is between stars?!

[Reply #431 on:]

Do they have any idea how much distance is between stars?!

Yup. That was always my question. Either there is one star and the Rim planets are REALLY chilly, or there are two stars and you need FTL to get from the Alliance worlds to the Rim.

[Reply #432 on:]

Exactly, even the intro to the film mentions that they found a planetary system with dozens of planets and hundreds of moons, not that they found several planetary systems.

[Reply #433 on:]

Indeed. I think this is a retcon.

[Reply #434 on:]

To be fair, seven of those stars are helioformed gas giants. And since the barycenter of the seven protostars and the other five natural stars falls within or nearby the White Sun, they can be legitimately considered one system. Think of it this way: if Jupiter had ignited and become a star, would the Jovian moons be considered a separate planetary system apart from Sol's?

Also consider the age level the opening narrator of Serenity was speaking to. It was an indoctrination attempt on the righteousness of the Alliance, not a scientifically precise astronavigation lecture.

[Reply #435 on:]

Xanfor, you make an excellent point. Do you think the gas giants were terraformed into stars?

[Reply #436 on:]

To be fair, seven of those stars are helioformed gas giants. And since the barycenter of the seven protostars and the other five natural stars falls within or nearby the White Sun, they can be legitimately considered one system. Think of it this way: if Jupiter had ignited and become a star, would the Jovian moons be considered a separate planetary system apart from Sol's?

Uhm... you do realise how big a gas giant has to be to become a star, right?  Yeah, and the only binary systems we know of have their stars pretty close together.  While the gravity pull on the planets makes that system entirely unliveable.  While I might accept one substar in a planetary system - even if entirely unheard of scientifically - 5?  Come on.

[Reply #437 on:]

34Tauri(2020) was originally a quintuple system with fourteen gas giants. Seven of these gas giants were large enough that they were also considered brown dwarfs. The helioforming process consisted of increasing the density of these brown dwarfs until they reignited as protostars.

It's all there in the manual.

[Reply #438 on:]

Hmm... Interesting.

[Reply #439 on:]

Beautiful map, but clearly a ret-con, having followed the link. Still, nice.